© Photo: Steve Jennings

According to drum tech Davey Brozowski (above, left), drummer Jesse Sandoval’s (left) kit is miked with Shure Beta 91 (kick) and 57 (snare top), beyerdynamic M88 (kick) and Opus 88 (rack toms), and Sennheiser 604 (snare bottom, floor tom). “I like Audix mics on the brass because you can heavily filter them and still retain some body—and the natural dip at 8k is also really nice,” Brozowski says. “We’re using the SCX-25s on the overheads. They are very sensitive mics, and if Jesse was a basher, I doubt I’d be able to use them. We use the M1245 under the bell of the ride cymbal and a Shure KSM model mic for the hi-hat.”